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Hello, I am looking the way how to create a new board after cloned https://github.com/armbian/build in my local. I am woking on a A20 (allwinner) project. The Idea is copy the current configuration of eg. cubieboard2 and modify it in order to fit my requirements. I already read the Armbian documentation and I spent 1 day searching in the forum for that receipt. Customize things are pretty easy but no info about how to create a new board. Basically I looking for: 1) How and where to clone an existing A20 board configuration locally (in my PC). 2) How to enable locally (in my PC) that new board in the Armbian develop…

Hi I think the subject I am interested in, called Kiosk OS or computer. I like to build a computer that when you turn it on, it does only execute one or some programs that I want. how can I do that? Is it a simple thing or should I spend weeks or months to learning and doing that? (I am a newbie linux user but know the C language). Very thank you in advanced!

Hi all, I need to customize the /etc/fstab during the build to mount a mtd partition and also to override some mountpoints with tmpfs in order to reduce wearing on mmc. So, have added the following lines to customize-image.sh: cat <<EOT >> /etc/fstab # Reduce SD wearing by storing log files into ram (no need as overlayroot is used to freeze all the rootfs) tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /run tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev 0 0 tmpfs /var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 tmpfs /var/lib/logrotate tmpf…

Since there is a well-known security issue at s905(x) SOCs : https://fredericb.info/2016/10/amlogic-s905-soc-bypassing-not-so.html Is it possible to disable serial console at s905 u-boot ? Does the setting at device tree apply to kernel only or both kernel and u-boot drivers ? Regards ! Guofu Han

Can someone tell me how to enable PWM in cubieboard2. I am using the latest ubuntu of armbian and vanilla kernel from this link. http://www.armbian.com/cubieboard-2/ Looking at /sys/class, I cant find any pwm folder root@cubieboard2:/sys/class# ls ata_device gpio iscsi_iface power_supply scsi_host ata_link graphics iscsi_session ppp spidev ata_port hwmon iscsi_transport pps spi_master backlight i2c-adapter leds ptp thermal bdi i2c-dev mdio_bus …

Hi all, I am new to kernel development, and I found an old ASUS tinkerboard. I want to give it a second life with some fun projects. The project I am building is another IP KVM, so I bought an HDMI to CSI module. After tinkering around for a while, I found I supplied the wrong clock for that module: [ 8.469299] tc358743 2-000f: unsupported refclk rate: 50000000 Hz [ 8.483069] kernel BUG at drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c:593! I have no idea about the clock value to put in the dts file, so I just copied some values from the ASUS kernel source. From the driver code drivers/media/i2c/tc358743.c, it shows that there are only…

I am trying to convert this dts file into a user-provided overlay. I have a work-in-progress, but I'm running into the issue that some labels seem not available to reference with the "&" operator. Specifically - the uart2 label seems not possible to reference. Maybe there are more compile errors in my code, but dtc only gives errors one by one... I tried decompiling the current device tree using dtc -I fs -O dts /sys/firmware/devicetree/base There the uart2 label seems missing in that output. I tried whether creating an alias for the path found in the current device tree, but that also didn't help: uart2 = "/soc/serial@1c28800"; …

Sorry, I know it is a noob question. I want to add something to the "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file, and tried serval methods to make the patch to build, but no luck: Method1: 1. Directly modify the "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file 2. Add "CREATE_PATCHES="yes" in $ARMBIAN_BUILD_HOME/build/userpatches/config-example.conf 3. Compile After compiled, I found my modification was not on "arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts" file. Method2: 1. Command: cd $KERNEL_SOURCE_HOME cp arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3328-roc-cc.dts . 2. Modify ./rk3328-roc-cc.dts 3. Command: …

I apologize if this is a basic question. I'm trying to make a minimal Orange Pi Zero 3 Trixie image with a btrfs file system and NetworkManager for the networking stack using Docker without having to compile a new kernel (i.e., I just want to use the precompiled kernel found in the CSC version). I created a `config-myimage.conf` file under `build/userpatches`: BOARD=orangepizero3 BRANCH=current RELEASE=trixie CLEAN_LEVEL=cache KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no BUILD_KSRC=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes NETWORKING_STACK=network-manager DOCKER_ARMBIAN_BASE_IMAGE=ubuntu:jammy ROOTFS_TYPE=btrfs BTRFS_COMPRESSION=zlib CONSOLE_AUTOLOGIN=yes #BOOTSIZE=96 # need larger boot size to…

Hi I had 2days of effort on make my lcd working here: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/issues/428, but no results till now! I like to know if I change my OS and download and install armbian, will my problem solved easily or it doesn't make any sense and I should keep trying on my Debian OS? Very thank you in advanced!

I am trying to build an image for both the Orange Pi PC and One I am on a slow cellular network and pay by the gigabyte for access. Is there a way to cache the packages for: Installing base system [ Stage 1/2 ] , and all the rest? Each time I try a compile.sh it take hours to re-download the whole set of packages, because the there is almost always at least a few packages that could not be fetched due to network errors, then they are unpacked and a corrupt tar image is saved and the packages are removed. If I save the create_rootfs_cache file with the missing packages, it does not try to reload them, it just errors out cause they are missing. I am building i…

My objective is to boot Armbian on my NanoPi Neo2 from a network server. I've got Armbian running on the NanoPi Neo2 and u-boot recognizes the ethernet interface. Also, I have a DHCP server and TFTP server running. If I press space during start-up, I get in the U-boot environment. When I give the dhcp command in the U-boot environment, the NanoPi Neo2 get's an IP address and loads /boot/boot.scr from the network. So, the pre-requisites seem to work fine. But then.... I just can't figure out how to start Armbian (preferrably in read only mode) from the network. Maybe someone can tell me what needs to be done. I've got the following qu…

During Assembly of images Armbian, faced with a situation where the build process creates a new\updated packages (kernel etc.). These packages are used to created images and it is desirable to update those who are already using older versions of the images. How to organize a network repository that would enable users to connect, get and install packages via regular means. For example using synaptic ? Maybe there are already rules for how it should be arranged for Armbian.

I run Armbian tool ( checked out from https://github.com/150balbes/Build-Armbian )with command ./compile.sh CREATE_PATCHES="yes" , but only see the request for patch the kernel : [ warn ] Make your changes in this directory: [ /home/hanguofu/Build-Armbian/cache/sources/LINUX_DEFAULT/20180925 ] [ warn ] Press <Enter> after you are done [ waiting ] I would like to patch the U-boot ( u-boot-aml-s9xxx ) instead of kernel . Should I manually add the patch to the userpatches/u-boot directory for my aml-s9xxx board ?

Hi guys, I'm new on linux, In the last week, I have downloaded armbian source code to build a light-weight kernel for my orangepi zero. Now, I don't need those packages that installed by armbian compile tool during building image (installed on (host/my laptop) Ubuntu 18.04 OS). How can I remove them without breaking my OS?

I'm building an Ubuntu image and after it compiles the ARM objects it tries to download files from ports.ubuntu.com. For a reason I'm still trying to figure out, it's trying to get files from 127.0.0.1 (which is weird) but that's fixable. What I'd like to do is resume a build that had failed without recompiling all the ARM objects again. I'm using compile.sh. Thanks! Kriston

There is another topic with answer for desktop case. But how to rotate the console screen, when there is no desktop? The suggestion about change in kernel parameter - fbcon=rotate:<number> didn't work for me (edited boot.cmd, compiled with mkimage command, and I see boot.scr changed ) and I was unable to change the /sys/class/graphics/fbcon/rotate file - it stays unchanged.

Hi, I managed to make w1-GPIO work in Orange Pi Zero v3 for, for example, the DS18B20 sensor. However, I have some doubts about setting the GPIO flags for w1-gpio. Many examples provide flags in the form gpios = <&pio 0 7 (GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH|GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN)>; but in the dts file when I use this form it does not work (syntax error) so I have to provide the flags in digital form. A description of flags and bits is here https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.6.30/source/include/dt-bindings/gpio/gpio.h If I would like to set GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH | GPIO_OPEN_DRAIN then the digital value for…

This may be a somewhat stupid question, but I just cannot find anything about it. I have custom-compiled the kernel for Allwinner A20/cubietruck as described here on a Virtual Box Ubuntu 18.04 Once done, I took the *.deb files out of output/debs, copied it to the machine and installed them. Everything worked fine and so far so good . But the "build" directory on the host with the compile.sh script is surprisingly empty. However, if I want to cross compile an additional kernel module on the virtual machine, how do I set this up? Is it enough to "make" with CROSS-COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-? or do I also need to somehow consider the linaro stuff in c…

Sometimes I get in trouble building a new image. This could be caused by a variety of reasons, e.g an Armbian patch does not work with the latest kernel, a new u-boot version makes trouble or some functionality is broken in the image like the USB and v4.6.1. stuff here: http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1338-a20-lamobo-r1-kernel-461-usb-issue/ How could I step back to working Armbian main build libraries and a working kernel and stay on both? Will this work? cd lib/ git checkout 2a2e190 # commit form June 1, 2a2e190: Move up to 5.14 since we need to ... cd .. touch .ignore_changes echo "KERNELBRANCH=\"v4.5.6\"" > userpatches/lib.config # add # KERNELT…

I added a missing memory region from /dev/gpiomem and tested it. gpiomem { compatible = "samsung,exynos-gpiomem"; status = "okay"; reg = <0x13400000 0x1000 0x14010000 0x1000 0x03860000 0x1000>; }; I didn't see where to make PR on github.

Hello. When using version 2.4 armbian I changed the settings (work with a chip on AXP209 cubietruck) in /boot/script.bin File is now a reference to /boot/bin/cubietruck.bin file. How can I unpack the file to edit it and pack back?

Hi all! I use Linux 3.4.112-sun7i on Limo2 (A20), how to I can do update libstdc++6 from current 4.8.4 to >= 5.2? Regards,

Hello everyone, I am an old-timer in Debian and Ubuntu and have uploaded and maintained packages there. I've come across an issue in a package that I use that affects 32-bit platforms such as armv7 but not 64-bit platforms. I've already analysed the problem and applied a fix, compiled the package locally and I'm happy. But I'd like to get the fix into armbian as well so others will not run into this fairly serious problem (for the package in question, it is essentially useless at the moment in noble). I looked through the various github repositories but was unable to see how to apply a patch to a userland package and have it published. Given that armbian s…

Hi all, I have a bananapi and I have installed the debian Wheezy image with kernel 3.19.0. Now, I’d like to upgrade to kernel 4.0.4 to see wether the ananlog audio output is supported; so I downloaded all the deb packages from the website and installed them, but after reboot the system is still using kernel 3.19.0. How can I switch it to use kernel 4.0.4? I guess I should edit something in boot.cmd and convert it to boot.scr, but what should I change exactly? Thanks in advance for your help!

How to use kdump on SBC, with armbian, and kernel, builded in armbian build system and installed as .deb packets?

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sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for servadmin: Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic InRelease Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB] Ign:3 http://beta.armbian.com bionic InRelease Err:4 http://beta.armbian.com bionic Release 404 Not Found [IP: 185.158.177.155 80] Get:5 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates InRelease [83.2 kB] Hit:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-backports InRelease Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates/main armhf Packages [94.3 kB] Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com bionic-updates/universe armhf Packages [78.3 kB] Re…

Thanks for the great armbian work this community does! I am trying to use an Espressobin board as a Homeassistant host. However I am struggeling with the usbserial of the kernel. Here is what I get with the Linux 4.19.59-mvebu64 kernel when I plug in the SiliconLabs based HubZ zigbee USBstick: [ 159.552682] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2 [ 164.277522] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using orion-ehci [ 164.436750] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x81 has invalid maxpacket 64 [ 164.436792] usb 1-1: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 bulk endpoint 0x1 has invalid maxpacket 64 [ 164.436828] usb 1-1: config 1 …

Was in dire need of Armbian on my new toy, the HBP with a iMX8Q CPU ;-) The board features dual WWAN (PCIe + M.2) sockets for highspeed 3G/4G/5G modems with a SIM socket. The Debian build from SolidRun did not have any modem drivers enabled in the kernel so there was headache. Wipped up this WIP configuration and it builds and runs with: ``` $ ./compile.sh BOARD=hummingboardpulse-imx8q BRANCH=legacy RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no ``` NOTE: It uses the HDMI and LPDDR4 binary blobs from NXP. You will get a prompt during build to accept the license. The board is default configured to boot from SD using …

I'm using an opi PC with a sandisk ultra 32GB micro SD. I've noticed that if you do a large write to the SD card (i.e. via samba) then the system becomes sluggish. Writing to a USB stick does not have the same effect on system performance. I tried changing the scheduler to CFQ (from noop) and it helped a lot. Has there been any testing on which scheduler is best? I assume noop performance will vary dependant on the SD controller? raspbian uses deadline as the default - https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=64702 Some very good info here: https://www.thomas-krenn.com/de/wiki/Linux_I/O_Scheduler

I have have armbian V25.2.3 installed on a radxa Zero 2w linux kernel 6.12.17-current-meson64. The radxa uses i2c to talk to a PCA9685 which in turn drives three servos in a robot. The issue is that the PCA9685 has two i2c busses, 0 and 1. But the radxa zero has only two i2c busses that can be enabled using armbian-config and they are i2c-3 and - ic2-5. It seems I need to install a new overlay to describe the i2c busses in the device tree. But how do I do that?

Hello, I am trying to port my developed module to the newest Armbian system. Once I had everything worked in very old Armbian developed in 2018 based on kernel 3.4. There is a hardware module connected via i2c1. When my program tries to communicate with it, it doesn't work and I get errors kernel: i2c i2c-1: mv64xxx: I2C bus locked, block: 1, time_left: 0 I've uploaded the diagnosis information to URL: https://paste.armbian.com/aciwalafah There was a problem also in Armbian 22.11 system. I upgraded it after found information about some solution for i2c probem with similar error messages. Please advise. Thanks.

Hello, im trying to map the i2c-2 to some GPIO ports and have to rewrite the device-tree on armbian 22.04. I'm failing miserably and have no idea how-to do it. I managed to compile the i2c-gpio.ko kernel module as it is not part of the armbian 5.15.89-sunxi kernel. However, here i'm stuck and cant manage to make it happen. On RPi it was simple adding an overlay to config.txt: dtoverlay=i2c-gpio,bus=2,i2c_gpio_sda=27,i2c_gpio_scl=17 /boot/overlays/i2c-gpio.dtbo I'm trying to replicate that for Armbian, here is my dts file: // Overlay for i2c_gpio bitbanging host bus. /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatibl…

Hi, I'm in need of help with the I2S "drivers" for Arch Linux ARM and the A20 processor. I need to create a 4-wire I2S output. 1. BCLK 2. LRCLK 3. DATA 4. MCLK = 256xfs I can't seem to work out how to make #4, a Master Clock fixed at 256 * Fs. I've been using this code as a starting point: https://github.com/dan-and/linux-sunxi/tree/dan-3.4.current/sound/soc/sunxi/i2s and I am not a Kernel developer. At all. Thanks.

Hi All, I am not new to kernel building. I have been building kernels since the early days of Gentoo. Kernels on boards however, is something a bit different. I have an roc-rk3328-cc but this would be applicable to a variety of boards. Right now Firefly has their 4.* kernel at 4.4.114. I guess at some point that was what they went with. The current kernel is at about 4.15.14. I couldn't figure out how to patch from 4.4.114 to 4.15.14 (if you could provide help with that, please do so) so I downloaded the tarball and extracted it into the firefly's git directory. What should have happened was any kernel related file got u…

EDIT: After discussion with a few users, to avoid the issue of having this modification wiped out by a future DTB update and create the unfortunate scenario where the /boot/armbianEnv.txt requests to load a DTB which no longer exists, it's a lot simpler to overwrite the original DTB thus keeping the naming identical. If the DTB gets overwritten by an update then the reboot functionality may just revert to the no-reboot behavior until the fix is re-applied to the newer DTB. The problem lies in the SDCARD signals not being in the right state for a reboot. To solve this we will de-compile the DTB in /boot/dtb/amlogic/meson-gxbb-odroidc2.dtb to create a source ver…

Hi guys, New over here. I have been building custom images without issues for some time for Nano Pi M4. From last week it seems it is not longer building them. In case my build env was corrupted, image build process was tested on a clean VM build env with Ubuntu 18.04, without any customization, following instructions in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/). I am just trying to buildi kernel image at the moment. In any case, I am seeing some of the rockchip kernel patches are not being applied for some reason, and a compiler error is produced when building the kernel (specifically: looback block dev module). Anybody else is …

Is there an example of how to prepare the image with ...(for example) pre-Installed webmin ,Apache and own www start page ?

Hi. According to this patch Orange pi 5 Pro DTS (which BTW i use for my successful Orange Pi 5 Pro edge build) there will be a split of DTSI files. Most of the code in rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtsi will be transferred to new rk3588s-orangepi-5-5b.dtsi. In my current build for Orange Pi 5 and 5 Pro I have: rk3588s-orangepi-5-5b.dtsi rk3588s-orangepi-5b.dts rk3588s-orangepi-5.dts rk3588s-orangepi-5.dtsi rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro.dts. Please note I have Orange Pi 5 Pro with SPI chip soldered on so for Orange Pi 5 Pro build with EMMC (99.99% of cases) in rk3588s-orangepi-5-pro.dts set: /* SFC */ &sfc { status = "disabled"; }; and &sdhci { …

hello, i try to update my armbian and i got this E: Release file for http://security.debian.org/dists/bookworm-security/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 3h 4min 26s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 2h 59min 29s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bookworm-backports/InRelease is not valid yet (invalid for another 2d 2h 59min 29s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. E: Release file for http://apt.armbian.com/dists/bookworm/InRe…

I know most of you probably don't want to hear any more about this chip, but I recently fixed quite a few long standing issues. It's not perfect yet, but it improves scanning/reliable reconnect, incoming frames missed in powersave, ping times, and rate selection. Here's the patch set: https://github.com/fifteenhex/xradio/pull/12 Edit: rebased from karabek: https://github.com/dbeinder/xradio/commits/karabek_rebase And some important comments about powersave: https://github.com/fifteenhex/xradio/pull/11#issuecomment-616226880 In short, relative to the current version, with powersave on, idle consumption is lower by 200mW, but with powersave off, it is 300mW hig…

I wish you all good health. Using the "Armbian" build system, I noticed two bad points: 1 - incomplete cleaning of the source code before starting a new compilation, seen when patches add new files to the tree. 2 - Debian kernel source package includes the git directory. 1) All I do I'm fixing the version kernel (KERNELBRANCH="tag:v4.14.40") and collect several variants for one Board, changing the patchset for each version, adding or removing some. Before each new compilation I'm doing a test of the purity of the source. clean_repo() { display_alert "clean_repo $PWD" #git status -s git reset --hard HEAD # First, return the modified f…

Hi, Yesterday, I reinstalled my NanopiM1 and I noticed the download link for H3 devices uses many different versions : orangepipcplus : 5.14 orangepiplus2e : 5.14 orangepilite : 5.13 nanopim1 : 5.10 bananapim2plus : 5.13 orangepi2h3 : 5.10 orangepioneh3 : 5.13 orangepipch3 : 5.14 orangepiplush3 : 5.14 tkaiser explained me why there were both 5.13 and 5.14 (see here) so no problem here. But the 5.10 are quite old and for the Nanopi M1, the dvfs_table included is buggy. I do remember reading of a difficulty to detect the difference between Orange Pi PC and NanoPi M1 but I don't know if that may be the reason. Anyway, I can also add an issue if Github should be p…

Hi I am getting a memory problem, quite irregular. In any case, for some reason, at different times suddenly decrease the amount of memory available - and so it remains. As the attached image at 2:30 at night when nothing has special - I was sleeping Can anyone advise me how to find the reason? I will be very grateful.

You have a build framework that works pretty good, is it out of the question to have an extremely simple configuration framework? Maybe framework is more advanced than needed, probably just a script? It it doesn’t need to be part of the normal build process but could just simply inject a configuration profile into a completed rootfs, image or actual sd card Just the basics: Single network manager profile hostname default user and pass serial console config log2ram status remote login status (ssh, xrdp) I don’t mind writing a simple v0.1 to get started

I downloaded image for Orange Pi PC plus - Jessie desktop today and run upgrade ... It is not critical error but I report it. Setting up dmsetup (2:1.02.90-2.2+deb8u1) ... update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated) Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u1) ... /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun8i does not exist. Cannot update. .. .. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.120+deb8u2) ... /boot/initrd.img-3.4.112-sun8i does not exist. Cannot update.

Hi dev's, please change the script that when you've installed "Bullseye" in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list is allwas "deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable". I think is has to be: deb [arch=arm64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian bullseye stable Greetings Markus

Hello, I'm new to Armbian which i just installed on a Rock64 board (Armbian_5.65_Rock64_Ubuntu_bionic_default_4.4.162.7z). I have to say that my first impressions are that Armbian is a nice Os and that this is the one that causes me the less troubles on the Rock64 to install and to start. My goal is the write/port an application in C++ preferably by using Qt. Here, it is the problem. I tried to install it using command: sudo apt-get install qtcreator sudo apt-get install qt4-designer "Qt 4 Designer" seems installed correctly and seems working properly. Qt Creator was not installed completely, the IDE is installed but there i…

Prior to entering an issue... One of the challenges of using an image based install is how to cover to machine unique items... Good example here is the systemd-machine-id... some systemd units can use machine-id in place of gethostid... https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/machine-id.html It's supposed to be a unique qualifier for installation - but if this is written into the image, it's going to likely be the same for every image out there... Can always regen it on the shell - but this could also be in the first run script... $ cat /etc/machine-id \ && sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dbus/…

FYI I've found a problem with the nand-sata-install script after building a 4.6 version for my pcduino, nand-part does not exist in /usr/sbin. Did a full, default compile. Seems the command its in the PATH but if i try to run nand-part i get "/usr/sbin/nand-part now found" lf I go manually in there and do a "ls " its there, but even if im in the folder and do ./nand-part same error appears. The error that I'm getting from nand-sata-install is not enough space on nand2, because nand-part is not able to run and aprtition the disk its trying to copy all root to 16MB(old partitioning from stock linksprite image). To make it work for myself i manually compiled nand…

WireGuard is a modern VPN service for Linux. For best performance it is requred to build WireGuard as kernel module (described at https://www.wireguard.com/install/) Right now after each update of kernel of Armibian WireGuard stops work as new kernel has no compiled wireguard.ko module Is it possible to integrate WireGuard to Armbian kernel?

Hello together, I'm developing a device driver for a network interface controller for MOST bus. So, first of all, I've added a node with all the settings for this IC in my DTS, the IC is connected to second I²C-controller: &i2c2 { pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&i2c2_pins_a>; status = "okay"; os8104: os8104@41 { compatible = "smsc,os8104"; reg = <0x41>; master = <0>; /* slave mode*/ bypass = <0>; /* /ABY (all bypass mode) im register bXCR */ reset_gpios = <&pio 8 17>; /* PI17 */ int_g…

I'm trying to compile the tv.ko driver for the NanoPi M1 (to see if I can bake overscan compensation into it). First I compiled the whole of Armbian to see if I can produce the .ko in such a roundabout way, but besides being a very dumb/slow way of going about it, I can't find any file called "tv.ko" after running all of that (it probably gets cleaned up). Short of mounting the generated Armbian image manually and extracting tv.ko, is there a way to compile just the driver? It normally sits at: /lib/modules/3.4.112-sun8i/kernel/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/tv.ko And sources for it are under: sources/linux-sun8i/sun8i/drivers/video/sunxi/disp2/tv/ The modin…

Hello, for quite some time I have noticed that it seems impossible to build just the kernel, an image is built every time. I am using the following command: ./compile.sh BOARD=odroidxu4 BRANCH=current RELEASE=bullseye BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_ONLY="kernel" KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no USE_CCACHE=no KEEP_KERNEL_CONFIG=no DEB_COMPRESS=xz Additionally, output/debs seems not to be cleaned, despite documentation indicating this should happen with default CLEAN_LEVEL. Am I doing something wrong? Or does documentation need updating? Thanks!

Hello, is there a parameter one can pass to ./compile.sh in order to limit which toolchains are being downloaded? I just checked and cache/toolchains is taking up 14 GB on my VM and given that I only ever build odroidxu4 kernels this is quite an overkill. I could of course delete the cache manually but this would mean that the toolchains need to be re-downloaded for the next rebuild. Thanks!

I think I'm finally managing to understand this Armbian build system. It's an amazing piece of work! However, after the build, many source files end up owned by the root user. There's just a lot of activity going on "as root" that probably doesn't need to be run with that privilege. Disaster seems just one build script error away. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a simple way to avoid this (without resorting to virtualization of the build environment). Has this not bothered anyone else?

I am referring to s905(x) series SOCs. Is it possible to create a cryptpasswd at encrypted OTP and use it to unlock root file system on boot ? If not , is it possible to use a security chipset such as ATSHA204 / DX81C04 / ZW30I8 / SMEC98SP to feed s905(x) the key ? Regards ! GuoFu Han

Hi! I’ve been trying to build a kernel with custom settings for a couple of days now, but am facing some issues. My build setup is a virtual machine (running in VMWare Workstation Pro v15) based on the mini.iso image that's recommended in the Armbian documentation (and post here in the forums). The target is an Odroid N2+ SBC. There was no apparent issues setting up the build framework, installing git and cloning the repository. I then executed the compile.sh script and manually set the kernel configuration via the menuconfig interface that pops up. This however yielded an output image that, surprisingly enough, does not use my supplied configurati…

I'm curious as to why we explicitly specify CPUMIN and CPUMAX values in the Armbian board configs, for most/all boards... These values of course propagate their way into the MIN_SPEED and MAX_SPEED settings in the target /etc/default/cpufrequtils configuration file (e.g., see lib/makeboarddeb.sh). If these values aren't specified, then the cpufreq driver will base its speed ranges on what the underlying H/W supports (e.g., specified via the board DT(s)). So...if the underlying driver configuration provides the supported speed range, then we actually need to specify these values? I ask because I'm running my H5 boards with my overlays t…

Currently all of the Armbian kernel defconfigs include the actual build configuration statically as part of the kernel. The standard Armbian build process also includes a copy of the .config file in /boot/config-<version>-<platform>. Are both required, or should the kernel configurations be updated to make Kernel .config support an LKM instead of static bind? True this is a minor item. The actual kernel configuration takes up a very small amount of memory, though on many SBCs with limited memory to start with every byte not used by the kernel can help. This would amount to changing from: CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y to: CO…

Has anyone been able to get kernel 4.???? to work on an orange Pi Pc?

Hi all, I'd like to compile latest kernel 4.11-rc7, so i added KERNELTAG="v4.11-rc7" to ./compile.sh and created file /userpatches/lib.config and added KERNELBRANCH="4.11" to it i also added to /lib/configuration.sh according to documentation ARMBIAN_MAINLINE_KERNEL_VERSION='4.11' # lock in a particular kernel version but i get this error : [ o.k. ] Using user configuration override [ userpatches/lib.config ] [ o.k. ] Syncing clock [ host ] [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot v2017.03 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ error ] ERROR in function fetch_from_repo [ general.sh:184 ] [ error ] Error in configuration [ o.k. ] Pr…

Hello, I'm using armbian debian Jessie server, kernel 4.6.3 for banana pi m1+. Before, I built device driver with kernel 3.x and was working well, but decided to higher the kernel version because of SPI. (cpu isolation for the thread with SPI communication did not work in kernel 3.x) In the kernel 4.6.3, cpu isolation was working perfectly. When I used bcm2835 library, SPI also worked. However, when I tried to use the same device driver code in the kernel 4.6.3, it just crashed and froze. I had to turn it off and on again to use the pi again. After debugging, I found out that the point of the crash was the method gpio_direction_output(pinNumber, fal…

Hi, I managed to compile 5.16.1 for my Rockpi4 board, I did not flash it yet as I try to polish things before I flash things. Also awaiting my 4A+ ( with POE HAT ) but first things first. Could one please update the edge entry to " 5.16.y " # /config/sources/families/include/ rockchip64_common.inc Also imho for rockpi4a(+) all bluetooth and WiFi entries should be removed from the kernel .config: - bluetooth-rtl8822cs-hci_ver-0x8.patch - Bluetooth-hci_h5-Add-power-reset-via-gpio-in-h5_btrt.patch - kali-wifi-injection-*.patch - wireless-*.patch - general-bluetooth-add-new-quirk.patch - board-…

Since update to 5.5.0 kernel (-rc2) my Orange PI often freezed after uptime of several hours up to 3 days (usually less than 24 hours). Since downgrade to 5.4.10 it seems to be stable again (1 day for now, so I still keep my fingers crossed). (Before upgrade to 5.5. it was up for several weeks - and I don't remember any unplanned reboot). Unfortunately I have no logs (it logs to ram), but in one case if was connected via ssh and had "htop" running - it showed nothing special at freeze time (CPU temperature around 50°C, no high load (around 0,5 load avg, only one CPU cure with a CPU % > 50% (still < 80%)). When I noticed the frozen system, I n…

Hi! I'm testing the image for cubieboard (A10 SOC) onto my MK 802 II and the legacy kernel is working fine (USB, OGT, WIFI, HDMI...) I just have changed the script.bin I'm reading some documentation about the device trees and I don't understand how you compile the vanilla kernel. Sorry if is a stupid questions but my board has his own .dts (sun4i-a10-mk802ii.dts), how you get a common vanilla kernel valid for all the configurations without using one specific .dts for each board? Probably I'm missing something very basic for ARM kernels, but this is my 1º aproach.

Some SBCs, such as PIneA64, provide a built-in RTC on-board while others do not. For those boards that do have a built-in RTC, it appears the kernel driver is configured as a builtin rather than as a module at least in some cases (I only checked a few). This in turn brings up a question: For boards that include a built-in RTC and also have the respective kernel driver configured as a built-in, should the kernel configuration to also set the system clock from that RTC (RTC_HCTOSYS) be enabled by default? There is a dependency that the RTC be built-in as the kernel will try to read from the RTC rather early, before any loadable modules w…

Hi all, Is there some documentation or How To on how to debug the boot process ? I posted before I am trying to bring up a AW-SOM-A20 board that gets stuck at boot. I am kind of at a loss so I figure next step is to use the kernel debugger, which I have never done on linux (I have experience with darwin/mac OS and freebsd though) Is there a build option for armbian so that the debuggable kernel image is left around in the build process ? All help appreciated, thanks Bruno

Hi, I'm very happy with running armbian on an Asus Tinkerboard. But now I have a little issue: I want to build a kernel module using DKMS. I tried to install the kernel headers, but the latest version on apt.armbian.com is 5.32 and the kernel is 5.34. Is there any solution to get the headers for the 5.34 kernel image? Thanks, Alex

When I reboot my Orange Pi PC 2 with my Realtek USB Dongle so the firmware is already loaded onto the Dongle I am seeing this: [ 31.659072] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: examining hci_ver=0a hci_rev=097b lmp_ver=0a lmp_subver=ec43 [ 31.659815] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: unknown IC info, lmp subver ec43, hci rev 097b, hci ver 000a [ 31.659830] Bluetooth: hci0: RTL: assuming no firmware upload needed [ 31.659852] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000002 [ 31.668671] Mem abort info: [ 31.671488] ESR = 0x96000004 [ 31.674561] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits [ 31.679880] SET = 0, FnV = 0 [ 31.682937] …

The network connection is confirmed to be normal. I can successfully download the kernel source using git clone, with a download speed of around 3–5 MB/s. However, during the Armbian build process, the kernel source fetching stage always fails. I have tried both full git mode and shallow clone mode, but neither can complete successfully. Is there any recommended solution for this issue? Is it possible to configure Armbian to reuse an existing local kernel source tree or adjust the kernel git download process? Thanks.

Hi there, trying to iterate on making small changes to a kernel driver module, and using armbian to help build the kernel (cross-compiling off the device). I'm aware of kernel-patch mode, but for making small changes, compiling, and iterating like this over and over, making and then putting patches into place on each cycle is quite cumbersome. Is there some way to tell armbian build _not_ to update the kernel, i.e. let me build with dirty tree, as I'm in a dev cycle? I just want to edit something in my local kernel tree, then build the kernel, and repeat

Was wondering if there are any kernel update scripts i can use to update from http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/kernel/ http://mirror.igorpecovnik.com/u-boot/ would be nice im open to colab on a script if there isn't any

Hello! I make an image for my device on the base Orange PI PC. As you know there is a built-in bad hardware RTC. There is no battery for clock. I make an image with the built-in off the RTC. It works fine! I want to connect RTC DS3231 or DS1307 i2c bus. How can I apply them in the kernel at boot time? How to tell the kernel that his master clock are i2s bus? How to remove fake-hwclock step build of the image? Sorry for bad english. I have tried

Hello I am unable to install a key 3g ..to Odroid C2have you a solution thank you

Armbian provides its own hostapd. Why? This is relevant because of the recent WPA2 bug. Upstream hostapd has been patched: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/hostapd I don't understand the precise relation between Debian and Armbian. Will this patch percolate down? Thanks

Hello, I would like know, KSZ9031RNX this chip supported in old Armbian Linux 3.4.x? Where I can found information about Linux supported chips in the Linux sources?

My only reason for being here is to develop a Kubernetes platform that runs on Armbian, mesh networks, and particularly the type of devices Consumers will typically have... Is anyone else already doing this? And who else here is in the web dev space? or ops? Or has a website on something like Wordpress.com or Wix, and wants to self-host it? What is your favorite open source PaaS? also proprietary like Heroku? Any AWS or GCP or Azure user? Or a Data Scientist? just wanted to get a little survey, of if this has market demand.

Hello, I'm currently working on embedded and now I need to connect my banana pi A20 with lemake LCD. Because of chromium issues and bugs for lower kernel, I want to use vanilla kernel. What I want to do is to run a server suing asp.net and start a kiosk mode chromium and check in the LCD. I've checked you posted this link http://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/patch/kernel/sunxi-next/bananapipro_lemaker_lcd.patch.disabled ​I also heard that I might deal with this problem by kernel compile, but I'm pretty new to Linux, and actually a little bit overwhelmed about the sources and information. ​Can you give me any suggestion about kernel compile, where to st…

Dear All ... My board is cubie2. Let's say I want to move led pins to pins other than PH20-PH21. In 3.x kernel , all we need to do is edit the fex file and compile it to script.bin. The edited parts is (from PH20/PH21 to PE10/PE11) : [gpio_para] gpio_used = 1 gpio_num = 8 gpio_pin_1 = port:PE04<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_2 = port:PE05<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_3 = port:PE06<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_4 = port:PE07<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_5 = port:PE08<3><default><default><1> gpio_pin_6 = port:PE09<3><default&g…

I am using Armbian 5.x images on the Orangi PI plus box since it appeared as it is stable and the most complete. root@orangepiplus:/usr/src/h3monitor# uname -a Linux orangepiplus 3.4.110-sun8i #18 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 8 20:03:32 CET 2016 armv7l GNU/Linux The LED visual board status is helpful during initial launching or headless usage. There is currently only one RED light for all the board statuses. It is somewhat confusing as for the Good running status. It is worth switching to GREEN, once the Armbian is loaded successfully and back to RED during the shutdown procedure. It is worth turning the red LED off after shutdown. This LED behavior has be…

Hello, just discovered ability to support legacy USB gadgets. There is UDC called max3420_udc and also gadgetfs module. By using startup script mkdir /dev/gadget modprobe max3420_udc modprobe gadgetfs mount -t gadgetfs none /dev/gadget it appears to be possible to use old gadget developed for kernel 3.4. It was descibed once in the link https://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1759-usb-gadget-built-for-h3-processor-on-top-of-gadgetfs/ just line else if (stat(DEVNAME = "sunxi_usb_udc", &statb) == 0) { should be replaced by line else if (stat(DEVNAME = "musb-hdrc", &s…

HI, Does anyone here encountered this error "libusb usb_bulk_send error -7" while reading in FEL mode? ./sunxi-fel read 0x42400000 0x82d0 boot1.header libusb usb_bulk_send error -7 Can you suggest how to fix this? Thanks in advance.

Hello, I have just installed the Armbian_23.11.0-trunk.114_Orangepi5_jammy_edge_6.6.0-rc1_xfce_desktop.img It boots OK, but does not present any desktop, but I can ssh into it and configure In syslog I find lots of errors where lightdm fails due to: Sep 20 16:10:15 orangepi5 systemd[1]: lightdm.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 4. Sep 20 16:10:15 orangepi5 lightdm[2103]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files Sep 20 16:10:16 orangepi5 systemd[1]: lightdm.servi…

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/lima/mesa/issues/85#note_213894 as said by Lima maintainer: Qiang Yu, xfce4 runs OK on lima now we could start to integrate lima to Armbian. @Igor do you agree?

Hello everyone, I’ve been working with 25-30 USB 3G/4G dongles successfully on Debian and Ubuntu, where all connections work without issues. However, on Armbian, I can only establish around 10 PPPoE connections. Here are the details of my setup: OS: Armbian based on Debian 10 (I also tried updating to Debian 11) - IMG: Sunvell rkship and Kernel Version: linux-image-current-sunxi 24.11.1 Packages Used: ppp, eject, and usb-modeswitch (tested with the latest versions) Logs: /var/log/ppp.log doesn’t show any errors. Isos: Armbian 21.05.1 stable, kernel 4.4 (SoC Rockchip rk322x) Armbian 20 - Debian 10 ARM (SoC Al…

Anyone heard of this? I had not, until it was brought to my attention in a comment to the release announcement I sent to LWN. From https://validation.linaro.org/ : There is also https://www.lavasoftware.org/ : https://wiki-archive.linaro.org/LAVA : https://www.linaro.org/blog/lava-fundamentals/ https://github.com/Linaro/lava Anyway, plenty info in the Internet about it. I had a couple questions / thoughts: Any of you heard about / familiar with this? Is this suitable for our use-case?

Hello, I tried to apply the patch https://github.com/lintweaker/xmos-native-dsd/blob/master/SRPMS/patches/kernel/0001-usb-Add-native-DSD-support-for-Amanero-Combo384-LE.patch in armbian build for orange pi pc and banana pi pro. Neither works. Attached is the error message. Grateful for any help, thanks!

I am using my orange pi zero 3 with an SPI 4.0" LCD, with driver panel-mipi-dbi-spi. It works great with Linux 6.13.7 (started with a self built image with edge, minimal, Bookworm) and older, but I am having troubles with 6.14.8. Result from armbianmonitor -u after upgrading to linux 6.14.8: sudo apt install linux-image-edge-sunxi64=25.5.1 I reboot and the SPI LCD starts the text mode console, then turns black instead of starting lightdm https://paste.armbian.com/ucoxuwetiq Also xorg log after "sudo startx" fails to start. Spoiler roberto@orangepizero3:~$ tail -n300 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 234.918] X.Org X Server …

I already saw similar posts on this here, here and here. It looks like the combination of Kernel and Kernel-Header 5.89.190617 again is not complete to build own modules. Based on the configure script: Then I tried to check the headers: Since it was already a few times on the forum and sometime there was a new build created and it was fixed again, I would like to know if I just came over the same error again or if I did something wrong. cheers, Daniel

Hello. I'm just wondering if anyone here has successfully built the latest Linux Kernel 5.2 rc for any of the RK3288 based sbc's. I'm using the Tinkerboard S specifically and have read about several improvements that have been included in this kernel and including panfrost support which seems rather exciting.

I found it very confusing that Armbian doesn't seem to follow the Ubuntu/Debian traditional scheme for naming kernel modules: linux-image-*, linux-modules-* and linux-headers-*. I need them to cross compile out-of-tree kernel module in `schroot`. Armbian seem to have only `linux-image-edge-rockchip64` and `linux-headers-edge-rockchip64`. What's the reasoning behind such design decision? Moreover, I've noticed kernel packages incorporate all the logic that make the board bootable, instead having more generic kernel binaries and relying on `flash-kernel` tool that both Ubuntu and Debian widely use. I wonder why not? What are chances in future `linux-im…

http://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort#Merged_into_5.0 At the moment, the kernel version is 4.19.16, this version does not support the camera, but 2 new versions have already been released. Help compile, or explain what to do if I want to use the gc2035 CSI camera.

Hi guys, I am trying to get latest kernel on my cubietruck because from some reason I still have kernel + headers version 3.4.109 even I did "apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y" or tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" My setup is boot on nand and root on /dev/sda1 on debian Jessie. Root system is about week old. When I run "aptitude reinstall ~ncubietruck" I will get this: START linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-jessie-root-next-cubietruck is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-u-boot-cubietruck-next is not currently installed, so it will not be reinstalled. linux-j…

Hi, I recently noticed that after updating to 24.02 the package "linux-libc-dev" did not receive a update. I have checked the current armbian archives and couldn't find anything for any arch. Just to be sure i've also built armbian 24.5 images for bananapi (noticed this on a bananapi board) and rpi4b (as a well supported board) and no linux-libc-dev[...].deb was built. It seems that with the buildsystem change the files packages/armbian/mkdebian and packages/armbian/builddeb were retired (commit e98c66b, v23.11.1) which previously handled building the kernel packages and included linux-libc-dev. Unfortunately linux-libc-dev is a dependency for libc6-dev a…

I am trying to install perf on armbian. It happens that perf is dependent on the kernel release (see /usr/bin/perf, a shell script). I use kernel 4.10.0-sun8i, but the linux-tools installed are apparently for kernel 3.16: # uname -r 4.10.0-sun8i # apt-get install linux-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools-3.16 Suggested packages: linux-doc-3.16 The following NEW packages will be installed: libdw1 libperl5.20 libpython2.7 linux-tools linux-tools-3.16 0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and …

Sorry for this novice question, I am sure I am missing this in the documentation somewhere... When creating Armbian images using the included build system, I notice that the kernel is downloaded each time I run a build. This of course takes a decent amount of time to pull via git. Is there a way to simply point the build system to a local cached folder that already contains kernel sources already downloaded? That would speed up my iterations significantly. Thanks!

Hi, After 2 tests with recent images (5.77) with debian stretch for s912 (balbes ilmages) and dev image for pineh64, I get the same issue when configuring locales. I selected fr_FR.UTF-8 in armbian-config and I also ran manually dpkg-reconfigure locales and locale-gen, but I ended each time to default locales settings (ANSI_X3.4-1968). Only the LANG variable is set to fr_FR.UTF-8 and all LC_XXX variables are set to C. To solve this issue, I have modified manually the /etc/environment to set LC_ALL=fr_FR.UTF-8. Does anybody else have this issue and is it specific to debian? With a 5.75 stretch image the locale configuration worked well.

First time armbian user and poster here. Since this is not the right time and place for an introduction, lets keep it with a simple "Hi all!" and get straight to the topic: for completeness, my system: BOARD=orangepizeroplus BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero Plus" BOARDFAMILY=sun50iw2 VERSION=5.59 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi64 BRANCH=next ARCH=arm64 IMAGE_TYPE=testing BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm64 KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image logging, in particular logrotate with ram-logging As far as I understand: - Three different cron files are responsible to handle ram-logging and logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/logrotate -- /etc/cron.daily/armbian-ram-logging …